The bill was filed after Obama promised to raise the federal minimum wage during his 2013 State of the Union Address.

“Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour,” Obama said in last year’s speech.

A year later Obama has still not fulfilled his promise and it is unlikely that he will as long as Republicans control the House.

So far 210 lawmakers have cosigned the legislation, but according to Govtrack.us the likeliness of the bill moving through both chambers is about two percent.

Congressional Republicans have spoken out against the proposal, arguing it would put new burdens on business owners and ultimately harm the very people it was intended to help.

A recent study conducted by the Employment Policies Institute found that if the federal minimum wage were to be hiked to $10.10, as many as 1,084,000 jobs could be eliminated from the American work force.

Polls show the public backs a minimum wage hike. The issue will feature prominently in the 2014 midterm elections.

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